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History (New York: Routledge, 2003). He is currently working on a history of
yellow fever in the Americas from the 17th through the 20th centuries.
Amy Nelson received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and is
currently an associate professor of history at Virginia Tech. A specialist in
Russian and Soviet Culture, her current research focuses on the signifcance
of non-human animals in Russian-Soviet History. She is writing a collective
biography of the Soviet space dogs and, together with Jane Costlow (Bates
College), is editing a volume of essays entitled, The Other Animals: Situating the
Non-Human in Russian Culture and History. Nelson is the author of Music for the
Revolution. Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia (Penn State University Press),
which received the Heldt Prize for “The Best Book by a Woman in Any Area
of Slavic/East European/Eurasian Studies,” from the Association of Women in
Slavic Studies in 2005. Her recent publications include, “A Hearth for a Dog:
The Paradoxes of Soviet Pet Keeping” in Borders of Socialism: Private Spheres of
Soviet Russia, ed. Lewis Siegelbaum (New York, 2006) and “Accounting for
Taste: Choral Circles in Early Soviet Workers’ Clubs” in Chorus and Community,
ed. Karen Ahlquist, (Chicago, 2006).
Michael J. Neufeld is chair of the Space History Division of the National Air
and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Born in Canada,
he received history degrees from the University of Calgary and the University
of British Columbia followed by a Ph.D. in modern European history from The
Johns Hopkins University in 1984. Before Dr. Neufeld came to the National
Air and Space Museum in 1988 as an A. Verville Fellow, he taught at various
universities in upstate New York. In 1989-1990 he held Smithsonian and NSF
fellowships at NASM. In 1990, he was hired as a Museum Curator in the
Aeronautics Division, where he remained until early 1999. After transferring to
the Space History Division, he took over the collection of German World War II
missiles and, from 2003-2007, the collection of Mercury and Gemini spacecraft
and components. In fall 2001, he was a Senior Lecturer at The Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore. He was named Chair of Space History in January
2007. In addition to authoring numerous scholarly articles, Dr. Neufeld has
written three books: The Skilled Metalworkers of Nuremberg: Craft and Class in the
Industrial Revolution (1989), The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming
of the Ballistic Missile Era (1995), which won two book prizes, and Von Braun:
Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War, which is forthcoming in September 2007. He
has also edited Yves Béon’s memoir Planet Dora (1997) and is the coeditor of The
Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It? (2000).
Emily S. Rosenberg is professor of history at the University of California,
Irvine. Two of her books, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and
Cultural Expansion, 1890-1945 and Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics